J. J. Cale discography

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J. J. Cale discography
Compilation albums13
Video albums4
Soundtrack albums2
Solo studio albums15
Solo live albums3
Collaborative albums5
Box sets3
Repackaged sets4
J.J. Cale, playing his Casio PG-380 MIDI Guitar J.J. CALE.jpg
J.J. Cale, playing his Casio PG-380 MIDI Guitar

This article is the discography of American guitarist and singer-songwriter J. J. Cale.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
US
[1]
AUS
[2]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[4] [5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
UK
[12]
Naturally
  • Released: October 25, 1971
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC
5110
Really
  • Released: December 4, 1972
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
924811
Okie
  • Released: May 20, 1974
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
12845
Troubadour
  • Released: September 1976
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
843612224924353
5
  • Released: August 1979
  • Label: Shelter/MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
1366872712882440
Shades
  • Released: February 1981
  • Label: Shelter/MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC
11014923721810844
Grasshopper
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: LP, MC
14917973735191536
#8
  • Released: September 1983
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
52129133647
Travel-Log
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Silvertone
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
131102 [13] 18765029
Number 10
  • Released: November 10, 1992
  • Label: Silvertone
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
355258
Closer to You
  • Released: August 23, 1994
  • Label: Delabel/Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
36325082
Guitar Man
  • Released: June 25, 1996
  • Label: Delabel/Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
47125 [14]
To Tulsa and Back 41825399104 [14]
Roll On 11323321129215390
Stay Around
  • Released: April 26, 2019
  • Label: Because Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download

[upper-alpha 1]
269273
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
FRA
[5]
IT
[19]
Live(recorded 1993–1996)
  • Released: May 17, 2001
  • Label: Delabel/Back Porch
  • Formats: CD
6849
Breezin' at the Cafe(recorded 1988)
  • Released: June 2014
  • Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
  • Formats: 2xLP
  • UK-only release
Ebbets Field 1975
  • Released: June 12, 2015
  • Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
  • Formats: 2xLP
  • UK-only release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Collaborative albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
US
[1]
AUS
[20] [21]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[5] [22]
GER
[6]
NL
[7] [23]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWI
[11] [24]
UK
[12] [25]
The Super Duper Record of Super Heroes
A Trip Down the Sunset Strip
In Session at the Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
  • UK-only release
  • Featuring Leon Russell
The Road to Escondido
  • Released: June 7, 2006
  • Label: Reprise, Duck
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download
  • Studio album with Eric Clapton
234314102531750
Live in San Diego
  • Released: September 30, 2016
  • Label: Reprise
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Live album by Eric Clapton with special guest JJ Cale
4761872036960
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Soundtrack albums

TitleDetails
Band on the Run
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Infinity
  • Formats: LP
  • Australia promo-only release
  • Soundtrack to the film of the same name
  • Cale contributed 5 tracks previously released on his studio albums. The remaining tracks are by the Tim Gaze Band
La Femme de mon pote
  • Released: August 31, 1983 [26]
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • France-only release
  • Soundtrack to the film of the same name, released in English as My Best Friend's Girl
  • Tracks previously released on Cale's studio albums

Compilation albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[2]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[5]
NL
[7]
NZ
[9]
Special Edition
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
52
Best of... J.J. Cale
  • Released: January 1991
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • Scandinavia and Finland-only release
4
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
  • Released: May 13, 1997
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
  • Re-released in 2006 as The Definitive Collection
19927
Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology
  • Released: May 21, 1997
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD
Classic J.J. Cale
  • Released: June 23, 2000
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
The Best of J.J. Cale (20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection)
  • Released: July 23, 2002
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
Collected
  • Released: July 14, 2006
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Netherlands-only release
1
Gold
  • Released: April 16, 2007
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
  • Released: October 2, 2007
  • Label: Time Life
  • Formats: CD, digital download
172
Colour Collection
  • Released: March 30, 2007
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: CD
The Silvertone Years
  • Released: February 7, 2011
  • Label: Camden
  • Formats: CD
The J.J. Cale Collection
  • Released: April 8, 2011
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
After Midnight: The Best Of
  • Released: May 12, 2014
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: CD
  • UK-only release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

TitleDetails
Cale and Company 1981
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Loco Bros. Productions
  • 30-minute documentary following Cale's Western United States and Canada tour
In Session at the Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Warner Music Vision/Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: DVD
  • Featuring Leon Russell
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004
  • Released: November 9, 2004
  • Label: Warner Music Vision, Reprise
  • Formats: 2xDVD
  • Eric Clapton festival which includes Cale playing two songs with Clapton: "After Midnight" and "Call Me the Breeze"
To Tulsa and Back – On Tour with J.J. Cale
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Black Hill Pictures
  • Formats: DVD

Box sets

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
NL
[7]
5 Essential Albums
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • Box set of Cale's first 5 studio albums
  • Netherlands-only release
Classic Album Selection
  • Released: March 22, 2013
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • Box set of #8, Shades, Naturally, Troubadour and Grasshopper
85
3 Original Albums
  • Released: June 3, 2016
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Box set of Troubadour, 5 and Shades
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Repackaged sets

TitleDetails
Naturally + Really
  • Released: January 15, 1988
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Grasshopper / Naturally / Troubadour
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 3xCD
Naturally + Really
  • Released: June 5, 2009
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD
Troubadour + Okie
  • Released: May 7, 2010
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD

Singles

SingleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
[27]
AUS
[2] [13]
AUT
[28]
CAN
[29]
GER
[6]
NZ
[30] [31]
SWE
[32]
SWI
[33]
"Shock Hop"/"Sneaky" (as Johnny Cale)1958Non-album singles
"Let’s Paint the Town Red"/"I Hate Myself" (as Al Sweatt with Johnnie Cale & the Valentines)
"There’s a Big Wheel"/"Old Black Joe" (as part of Jerry Adams and the Starlighters)1959
"Creepin'"/"Hot Licks" (as part of the Starlighters)
"The Purple Onion"/"Troubles, Troubles, Troubles" (as Johnny Cale Quintette)1960
"Ain't That Lovin' You Baby"/"She's My Desire" (as Johnny Cale Quintette)1961
"Dick Tracy"/"It's a Go-Go Place"1965
"I'm Puttin' You On"/"Who Do You Love" (as part of Sunday Servants)1966
"Outside Looking In"/"In Our Time"
"Slow Motion"/"After Midnight"
"The Green Hornet" (as part of the Super Dupers)The Super Duper Record of Super Heroes
"March of Tarzan" (as part of the Super Dupers)
"Magnolia"1971Naturally
"Crazy Mama"22102118
"After Midnight"19724260
"Lies"4210Really
"Going Down"1973
"Cajun Moon"1974
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Okie
"I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)"/"Precious Memories"
"Rock and Roll Records" (Germany-only release)
"I Got the Same Old Blues"1975
"Hey Baby"19769675Troubadour
"Cocaine"1977455221102
"Travelling Light" (UK and Netherlands-only release)
"You Got Something" (New Zealand-only release)
"I'm a Gypsy Man" (UK-only release)1978
"Katy Kool Lady" (UK and Australasia-only release)1979985
"Juarez Blues" (as Juan & Maria; Continental Europe-only release)Non-album single
"Friday" (Continental Europe-only release)5
"Don't Cry Sister" (Netherlands-only release)
"Mama Don't"198170Shades
"Carry On"
"Wish I Had Not Said That" (Germany-only release)
"City Girls"198249Grasshopper
"Devil in Disguise"
"Don't Wait" (Japan-only release)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Netherlands-only release)
"One Step Ahead of the Blues" (New Zealand-only release)
"Losers"1983#8
"Trouble in the City" (Netherlands-only release)
"Teardrops in My Tequila" (UK-only release)
"People Lie" (Spain-only release)
"Shangaid"1989149Travel-Log
"No Time"
"Hold On Baby" (EP)1990
"That Kind of Thing" (France-only release)
"Lonesome Train" (UK and Europe-only release)1992Number 10
"Artificial Paradise" (France-only release)
"Long Way Home"1994Closer to You
"Closer to You" (France promo-only release)
"Sho-Biz Blues" (France-only release)
"Tijuana" (Live; Netherlands and France promo-only release)1996Non-album single [upper-alpha 4]
"Days Go By" (France promo-only release)Guitar Man
"Hard Love" (Live; Europe promo-only release)Non-album single [upper-alpha 5]
"Guitar Man" (Netherlands promo-only release)Guitar Man
"The Problem" (Europe promo-only release)2004To Tulsa and Back
"Ride the River" (with Eric Clapton; promo-only release)2005The Road to Escondido
"Danger" (with Eric Clapton; promo-only release)2006
"Waymore's Blues" (Europe promo-only release)2007Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
"Roll On" (featuring Eric Clapton; promo-only release)2009Roll On
"Who Knew" (UK promo-only release)
"Stay Around" (Europe promo-only release)2019Stay Around
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Contributions

YearTitleArtistContribution [upper-alpha 6]
1973 Back in '72 Bob Seger Lead guitar on "Midnight Rider"
Hank Wilson's Back Vol. I Leon Russell Electric guitar on all tracks
Angel Clare Art Garfunkel Guitar
1974 Stop All That Jazz Leon RussellElectric guitar on "If I Were a Carpenter"
1975 Will O' the Wisp Electric guitar on "Can't Get Over Losing You"
1976 Sweet Harmony Maria Muldaur Electric and slide guitar on "Sad Eyes"
1978Back in the U.S.A. Jonas Fjeld Band Guitar on "S.R.O."
Gordon PayneGordon PayneGuitar on "Go Ask Her"
Après minuit Eddy Mitchell Guitar on "Après minuit"
Comes a Time Neil Young Electric guitar
That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls Jessi Colter Guitar
1979Naked Child Lee Clayton Guitar and vocals
1984Veranda Christine Lakeland Electric guitar on "Mr. Completely"
To a Wild Rose Ben Keith Guitar
1990 The Rhythm of the Saints Paul Simon Guitar on "Can't Run But" and "Born at the Right Time"
1991Lover CaféÉmile WandelmerGuitar
1992Got Love If You Want It John Hammond Guitar on "I‘ve Got Love If You Want It"
1993ReckoningChristine LakelandElectric guitar on "Who Knows", "Hard Day" and "On a Good Day"
1994 The Tractors The Tractors Guitar on "The Tulsa Shuffle"
Seven Gates: A Christmas AlbumBen Keith & FriendsGuitar
2006Uncovered Tony Joe White Guitar and vocals on "Louvelda"
2010 Clapton Eric Clapton Guitar and vocals on "River Runs Deep" and "That's No Way to Get Along"; vocals on "Everything Will Be Alright"
2013 Old Sock Guitar and vocals on "Angel"

Notes

  1. Stay Around did not chart on the Billboard 200, but did peak at #16 on the Independent Albums chart and #75 on the Album Sales chart. [15] [16]
  2. Stay Around did not chart on the Official Albums Chart, but did peak at #12 on the Independent Albums Chart and #27 on the Scottish Albums Chart. [17] [18]
  3. "Cajun Moon" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but did reach #118 on the Record World chart. [34]
  4. Original version on Travel-Log.
  5. Original version on Closer to You.
  6. This is a list of vocal and instrumental credits and does not include production, technical or writing credits.

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